AI simulations reveal a Roman era board game in the Netherlands, pushing Europe’s blocking games back centuriesA limestone object recovered from the Roman settlement of Coriovallum, now Heerlen in the Netherlands, has provided rare evidence for how people played board games during the Roman period. The object, preserved in Het Romeins Museum, carries a pattern of incised lines on a flattened surface...More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/02/rom@archaeology#archaeology #boardgames #romanempire

Bronze Age hilltop settlement and 2400 BCE farming evidence found in Northumberland Cheviot HillsArchaeologists have documented a well-preserved Bronze Age hilltop settlement at Harden Quarry in the Cheviot Hills of northern England. The excavation took place inside Northumberland National Park ahead of a quarry extension. Results provide rare evidence for early farming and settlement in upland terrain...More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/bro@archaeology#archaeology #bronzeage

Scientists redate Ukraine’s mammoth-bone structures, uncovering Ice Age survival tacticsAcross the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters so extreme that the only ways to survive required uncommon ingenuity...More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/mamFollow us @archaeology#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #mammoth #huntergatherer #iceage #paleolithic

Medieval warrior-monk with extreme skull deformity discovered at Spanish fortressAccording to a recent publication, archaeologists working at the medieval fortress of Zorita de los Canes in central Spain unearthed an unusually striking skeleton: a middle-aged man with an exceptionally long, narrow skull whose remains tell a tale of both a demanding life and a violent death...More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/medFollow us @archaeology#archaeology #archeology #anthropology #medieval

North American rock art dated to 6,000 years ago, revealing a 4,000-year traditionFor generations, the limestone rock shelters of southwest Texas and northern Mexico have hidden some of the most spectacular ancient artworks in North America. These vivid Pecos River style murals—towering human-like figures, animals in motion, and intricate abstract motifs—have been the source of wonder for archaeologists for many decades..More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/nor@archaeology#archaeology #rockart

New 3D reconstruction reveals how Rapa Nui’s iconic moai were carved at the Rano Raraku quarryFor the first time, researchers have presented the most detailed digital reconstruction of Rano Raraku, the main quarry on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, where almost all of the island’s famous moai statues were carved. The high-resolution 3D model, created from tens of thousands of drone photographs...More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/new@archaeology#archaeology #archeology #rapanui #easterisland

Viking figurines were more than amulets: new analysis reveals their real rolesA new study published in the journal Antiquity provides new insight into how anthropomorphic figurines from the Viking Age were produced, used, and eventually deposited...More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/vikFollow us @archaeology #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #vikings #vikingage

Rare gold-decorated shoe and medieval workshops discovered in Třebíč excavation in the Czech RepublicArchaeologists working in the historic center of Třebíč are bringing a long-running investigation to its final phase, concluding several years of research into the town’s twelfth-century origins. In Moravia, west of Brno, Třebíč has been the focus of a major excavation...More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/golFollow @archaeology#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #třebíč #medieval

Ancient foot fossil finally identified as an enigmatic hominin species that lived alongside Lucy in EthiopiaScientists have solved a mystery concerning an unusual 3.4 million-year-old foot fossil from Ethiopia: it indeed comes from Australopithecus deyiremeda, a close but distinct relative of Lucy and her species, Australopithecus afarensis...More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/homFollow @archaeology#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #humanevolution #anthropology

The true origins of China’s mysterious hanging coffin tradition revealed through ancient DNAA new genetic study is reshaping what researchers know about one of southern China’s most distinctive mortuary traditions—the Hanging Coffin practice—and the people who carried it out. By analyzing both ancient and modern DNA, scientists have traced a clear ancestral link between the communities behind this striking burial custom and...More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/tru@archaeology#archaeology

Major Bronze Age workshop space revealed at Kissonerga-Skalia in CyprusArchaeologists have concluded the latest field season at Kissonerga-Skalia, a site north of Paphos that preserves one of the most detailed records of early communities on Cyprus...More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/majFollow us @archaeology #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #bronzeage

Archaeologists uncover the Americas’ earliest known observatory in PeruResearchers at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex in Peru have discovered an ancient structure that existed before what was considered to be the oldest known observatory in the Americas: the Chankillo Solar Observatory...More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/theFollow us @archaeology #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #archaeoastronomy #Chankillo